Meta has allegedly stopped engaged on its Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional competitor, codenamed La Jolla. Growth on this began in November of final yr, and it was supposed to return out sooner or later in 2027.
Now that is not taking place anymore. The explanation for the cancelation of the mission apparently has to do with the truth that the headset was utilizing MicroOLED shows which made it very costly, way more than Meta’s preliminary objective to maintain the associated fee below $1,000.
The $3,500 Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional hasn’t precisely been a powerful hit both, and if not even Apple could make a high-price system a greatest vendor, then that may be a sign that there simply is not sufficient of a marketplace for such high-end headsets to suit two competing ones.
Referring to the information in regards to the La Jolla headset’s cancelation, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth mentioned: “We have many prototypes in development at all times. But we don’t bring all of them to production. We move forward with some, we pass on others. Decisions like this happen all the time, and stories based on chatter about one individual decision will never give the real picture”.
Whereas the high-end headset might have been canceled, Meta remains to be engaged on a extra inexpensive Quest, codenamed Ventura, which may very well be popping out earlier than the top of this yr. Meta can be anticipated to showcase new AR glasses subsequent month, whereas the Quest 4 ought to arrive in 2026.
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